jasonnchann

I'm actually the person who wrote this. To be honest, I did write this for some content marketing in mind and didn't expect it to blow up here. But I literally did not use Chat-GPT...not sure what that says about my writing or how good GPT is lol

Basically I found an interesting article found here( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25043741) and summarized some key points from the comments while adding my own ideas.

This is such a good explanation.

Examples of horizontal tools could be something like a Scheduling App, a CRM, or even a Spreadsheet with the idea being that these tools could be used in all verticals/industries. The idea being that someone in healthcare and someone in tech could both use the tool, albeit a little differently. To bring it full circle, because the end user can be so different, it makes onboarding horizontal products really difficult.

yes

With the tech drawdown, been seeing more and more analysis on if software and tech has really increased productivity in the US. Anecdotally, it seems obvious that software has made our work way easier, but perhaps we are not doing anything "productive" with the time we've saved?

Affirm? I assume

Just read that one! This one is more of a spreadsheet/calculator that shows you how they make their yield

That makes sense. I was mainly wondering for old/past companies that don't end up selling their code base versus for Friday specifically. But maybe thats the answer, most companies end up selling their codebase and it does get reused. Good luck on everything!

Never understood why you wouldn't, at the minimum, open source it if you're shutting the doors

There's actually some cool apps people have built around this that I should have mentioned in the blog.

Here's one for example: https://noahlitvin.github.io/coinbase-costbasis

Personally though, I like to do these things in a spreadsheet because it's easier do another "query" or "analysis" on top of it.